{"product_id":"my-darling-detective-9780544236103","title":"My Darling Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction--his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's \"Death on a Leipzig Balcony.\" Jacob's police detective fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman delivers adelivers a fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945. The denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery--it's the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax Free Library in a span of three decades--is Howard Norman at his \"provocative . . . haunting\"* and uncannily moving best.\u003cbr\u003e\n*Janet Maslin, New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977778860198,"sku":"9780544236103","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780544236103_1_b74fb7fe-3625-47e6-8277-0f1684435bc9.jpg?v=1656104192","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/my-darling-detective-9780544236103","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}